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Caregiver Reader: Occupational physician
Returning to work without retelling everything: the card slipped into the return-to-work folder tells the occupational physician what matters for the job

Returning to work without retelling everything: the card slipped into the return-to-work folder tells the occupational physician what matters for the job

A card slipped into the return-to-work folder, scanned by the occupational physician before Marius even sits down, and the conversation starts from the job and the adjustments instead of going back to the first seizure.

This case concerns a 42-year-old adult with epilepsy who returns to his company after several months of sick leave. The profile is written by him. It is addressed to the doctor at the occupational health service, who has only a few minutes.

The lived moment

Tuesday, 9:40 a.m., waiting room of the occupational health service. Marius holds a blue cardboard folder on his lap: the sick leave certificate, a letter from the neurologist, the return-to-work visit form. A water cooler hums against the wall. On the train, he rehearsed his sentence ten times: "My seizures are rare, but here is what can happen."

Dr. Lemaire calls him in, file open on her screen. She scans the card resting on top of the folder and reads: a few seconds of absence, then ten minutes of confusion. Lack of sleep and night work make a seizure more likely. Lay him on his side, time it, put nothing in his mouth, call emergency services (15 in France) after more than five minutes.

She does not go back to the first seizure. She looks up and asks: "You are a warehouse manager, do you sometimes drive the forklift?" The discussion is about the weekly schedule and the forklift. Marius did not have to retell his year.

  1. You write it
  2. The QR is in place
  3. The reader scans
  4. Understood, without explaining again

Where to place the QR for this case

The doctor looks neither at the employee's phone nor at his badge: she looks at the paperwork of the visit. So the QR goes where she opens it, at the moment the file lands on her desk.

  • Card slipped on top of the cardboard return-to-work folder, with the sick leave certificate and the neurologist's letter.
  • Sticker stuck on the back of the return-to-work form, from an A4 sheet of stickers, in case the folder stays in the bag.
  • Link sent by message to the service's secretariat before the appointment, so the profile can be attached to the digital file.

To avoid: the locker in the changing room, the job sheet posted in the workshop, anything visible to colleagues. The profile does not need to circulate within the team, it is read by the doctor who decides what happens next.

Ready-made text templates

These outlines are a starting point. Rewrite them in your own words: the way a seizure shows up for you, and what comes before it, is like nobody else's.

For the "Presentation" section

"My name is [first name], I am [age] years old, [job]. I have epilepsy. My seizures are rare and monitored, they last a few minutes, followed by a phase of confusion. I am returning to my job after [duration] of leave and I would rather we talk about what I can do than about what happened to me."

For the "How to help" section

"If I have a seizure: put me on my side, clear the space around me, time it. After five minutes, call emergency services (15 in France). Afterwards, give me a moment to come back, without asking me questions right away. For the job, we can look together at schedules, working alone and driving machinery."

For the "What to avoid" section

"Do not put anything in my mouth. Do not hold me down during the seizure. Avoid placing me alone on night shifts without talking about it first. Avoid concluding on my behalf that I can no longer hold my job: I would rather we look at the possible adjustments."

Conditions covered by this case

This case describes controlled epilepsy. The same card works for employees returning after leave with other less visible particularities: ADHD, anxiety, sensory hypersensitivity, stabilized mood disorders.

Epilepsy A seizure sometimes lasts less than a minute. What follows can last much longer: hours of confusion, heavy fatigue, a floating memory, a need to recover in a ca View the profile

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And where does myHandiQR fit in all this?

Prepare your profile for this situation, without having to explain it again every school year.

You write down the essentials once. The grading teacher, the AESH (a teaching assistant for students with disabilities, in France), the substitute scan and understand. You stop repeating yourself.

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